(RNS) Gay rights supporters rally outside the Mormon temple in New York City to protest the church’s role in funding support of Proposition 8 in California, which overturned same-sex marriage rights. A federal judge on Wednesday ruled Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. RNS file photo by Nicole Neroulias.

(RNS3-OCT27) Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints oversees Mormon congregations on the West coast and has argued on behalf of California’s Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage. For use with RNS-MORMONS-PROP8, transmitted Oct. 27, 2008. Religion News Service photo courtesy of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.